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Bounds for DNA codes with constant GC-content

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v2 Biomolecules

Abstract

We derive theoretical upper and lower bounds on the maximum size of DNA codes of length n with constant GC-content w and minimum Hamming distance d, both with and without the additional constraint that the minimum Hamming distance between any codeword and the reverse-complement of any codeword be at least d. We also explicitly construct codes that are larger than the best previously-published codes for many choices of the parameters n, d and w.

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@article{arxiv.math/0306197,
  title  = {Bounds for DNA codes with constant GC-content},
  author = {Oliver D. King},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0306197},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

13 pages, no figures; a few references added and typos corrected